CORPSAFRICA
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
CorpsAfrica addresses the critical need for professional and personal growth opportunities across Africa by mobilizing young people to combat poverty and empower rural villagers through facilitating community-led development.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
National Service Opportunity for Young Africans
CorpsAfrica gives bright, ambitious African men and women the opportunity to serve in their own countries or other African countries as “Volunteers” along the lines of the Peace Corps model.
National Service Opportunity for Young Africans (2022 expansion)
CorpsAfrica gives bright, ambitious African men and women the opportunity to serve in their own countries or other African countries as “Volunteers” along the lines of the Peace Corps model.
Where we work
Awards
Sargen Shriver Award for Humanitarian Service 2019
National Peace Corps Association
Affiliations & memberships
GreatNonprofit 2019
GreatNonprofit 2020
GreatNonprofit 2021
GreatNonprofit 2022
GreatNonprofit 2023
External reviews

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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of CorpsAfrica Volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Young adults
Related Program
National Service Opportunity for Young Africans
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The number of CorpsAfrica Volunteers and alumni continue to increase every year.
Number of CorpsAfrica countries
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Young adults
Related Program
National Service Opportunity for Young Africans
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
2017: Morocco, Senegal, Malawi; 2018: Morocco, Senegal, Malawi, Rwanda; 2019 : Morocco, Senegal, Malawi, Rwanda; 2022: Morocco, Senegal, Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya
Number of training workshops
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Young adults
Related Program
National Service Opportunity for Young Africans
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
CorpsAfrica facilitates four intensive trainings per country each year for CorpsAfrica Volunteers.
Number of organizational partners
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
National Service Opportunity for Young Africans
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
CorpsAfrica Volunteers work closely with local, regional and int'l Development Partners to direct their scarce resources to rural villages that otherwise may be difficult to reach.
Number of Facebook followers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
National Service Opportunity for Young Africans
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
CorpsAfrica is part of an active social media community across Africa and the world.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
CorpsAfrica gives bright, ambitious African men and women the opportunity to serve in their own countries or other African countries to facilitate small-scale, high-impact projects that are identified by local people, along the lines of the Peace Corps model.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
342 Volunteers have successfully completed service; 172 Volunteers are currently serving in Morocco, Senegal, Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya in the 2022-2023 cohort. Initially, a large investment from a state-owned Moroccan company helped us expand to Senegal and Malawi. More recently, a second major backer is significantly enlarging capacity and growth through a five-year partnership—allowing the organization to add five more countries, including Ghana and Kenya, in 2022 and Nigeria, Uganda, and Ethiopia in 2023, and two more countries in 2024. From a one-person start-up in 2011, CorpsAfrica has evolved into a multinational organization with programs in six countries, a 50+ person staff. We have a strong followership base of over 7,000 individuals seeking to participate in the organization in various capacities – as applicants to the Volunteer program, friends of the organization, and partners. The demand for the CorpsAfrica model is clearly established. We are still perfecting the model and figuring out best practices before we will be ready to scale up across Africa.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Many factors have contributed to CorpsAfrica's success.
- First and foremost – the Volunteers are truly spectacular young people, eager to be a part of the solution for their country and show the world what they can do.
- Morocco was a terrific country from which to start CorpsAfrica. It's politically stable with a long history of the Peace Corps, and the people are warm and welcoming. The communities treated our Volunteers as if they were their own – and they worked together to identify and implement projects that address their top-priority needs.
- With Group 2, we tested utilization of the Design Thinking, which is a problem-solving technique that brings a structure to the facilitation process. The Volunteers loved it and we were able to raise money to hire a Design Thinking Consultant (RPCV-Liberia) to plan the curriculum and oversee the process. He is currently training a former Volunteer to become the Design Thinking trainer in Morocco.
- The US Peace Corps has been an exceptional partner from the very beginning. They provide advice and support as well as resources and on-the-ground collaboration. We had a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Morocco for Group 2, to provide support to the Volunteers in the field. When she ended her service, we hired two former CorpsAfrica Volunteers as “Volunteer Support Specialists."
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
CorpsAfrica has successfully recruited and supported 514 Volunteers to serve in Morocco, Senegal, Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya in the 2022-2023 cohort; 342 Volunteers have successfully completed service. Initially, a large investment from a state-owned Moroccan company helped us expand to Senegal and Malawi. More recently, a second major backer is significantly enlarging capacity and growth through a five-year partnership—allowing the organization to add five more countries, including Ghana and Kenya, in 2022 and Nigeria, Uganda, and Ethiopia in 2023 and two more countries in 2024. From a one-person start-up in 2011, CorpsAfrica has evolved into a multinational organization with programs in six countries, a 50+ person staff. We have a strong followership base of over 7,000 individuals seeking to participate in the organization in various capacities – as applicants to the Volunteer program, friends of the organization, and partners. The demand for the CorpsAfrica model is clearly established.
Some highlights:
* More than 130 strategic, financial, technical, and institutional Development Partners
* On average, each Volunteer impacts 500 community members, trains around 40 people using Human-Centered Design and Asset-based Community Development, and creates 50 local work opportunities during their service
*99% of host communities request another Volunteer
* 88% of alumni have transitioned into work or entrepreneurship, and 30% have received, or are pursuing, graduate degrees.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, It is hard to come up with good questions to ask people
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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CORPSAFRICA
Board of directorsas of 05/10/2023
Liz Fanning
CorpsAfrica
Term: 2012 -
Craig Kennedy
Marc Douglas
Karli Hagedorn
Omar Laafoura
Jocelyn Zuckerman
Kerry McNamara
James Miller
David Sanford
Liz Fanning
Stéphane Le Bouder
Haim Malka
Selamawit Tekalign Mamo
Brett Odom
Pierre Thiam
Patricia Tibbetts
Moky Makura
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Sexual orientation
Disability
Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.